Fox Hound

Big companies like TLG (Now the biggest toy brand) are a lot like Hollywood. Regardless of how good a script you write, Michael Bay will never come knocking on your door. He's gonna produce his own project. Even if the next Jurassic Park is staring him in the face. There's a .0001% chance TLG will ever get involved.

It's a neat idea, but the ship is (because it would fall apart otherwise) VERY INTERCONNECTED. It would honestly be 2x the work just trying to figure out how to break-up and then connect all the sections.

Thanks for all the warm words / donations, guys! Here's the link: https://www.kickstar...?ref=nav_search

Are Kickstarter links allowed? I remember some anti-promotion mumbo-jumbo. Just search "Executor" in the Kickstarter search field. BTW, the posters are beyond awesome. I mean 50" wide at 9600 x 5400!

To update: I've started a Kickstarter campaign for it. If it doesn't work (and there's a 99.9% chance it won't) I'll give up. Someone else will have to come along and build an SSD.

Right now I'm still trying to gather funds for the project. I'm starting a Kickstarter campaign soon. Even if I do, I'm still not sure I could construct it. Let me know if you're interested :)

I was waiting for over a decade for someone to build a large scale ISD SNOT. Apparently, no one had the design and build skills to pull it off... until now. Bravo. There's so much remarkable detail and greebles that there's literally nothing you could add that would make it look better. IT'S PERFECT. Until someone provides evidence otherwise, this is the best Lego SW MOC ever constructed. Lego master designers couldn't even design/build this. I like the length you decided on. 6 1/2 feet is epic, but affordable. Someone else tried too hard for epic and tried to build a SNOT 13 feet long, but only got to the bridge section before they realized it would weigh 400KG and cost $100,000. See below:

Yes it will haunt my dreams for many years. I'll place one support beam right in front of the engine section. That's the center of mass. At least, that's where the studio model's is. I think it will crash most people's LDD. But an inventory list is useless given she's hollow / missing 30% of final parts.

Thanks for the kind words, mortesv! The trench does seem a bit wide, but I happen to like the way it looks. Bob is also right, she's too narrow, by about 8-10 studs. You can tell because the left and right engines are too close together -- I think I used the resin model for a guide when I began the design. Stupid disproportionate resin model! And the city is a bit too narrow and low by 2/3 a stud. It "pops out" more in the studio model. And the tail is 4 studs too long, and needs to slope inward more. Whew. I'm exhausted :) You can see how problematic this can get. In fact, even the "perfect" reference guides are not so perfect. This was Aeroeza's render based off sketches: As you can see, the ridgeline of the city in the tail should not be straight. And the engine flap in the middle is much wider in the studio model. And (not shown here) the flap in the belly groove is too narrow. And overall, I still think this render is a bit too wide-- Ahhhh! You see how frustrating this is? In the end, you have to borrow design elements from 10 different sources. You also have to take into account inherent Lego size issues. At 12.5 feet, her engine cowlings should technically be something like 5.22 studs wide, well, I only have rims 5.5 studs wide. Her city blocks should be 3.63 studs wide. Well, I need an integer. I'll use 4. The real question now is should I bother to make adjustments during construction, or just build the ship exactly the way it is? Make her MY interpretation. I'm not quite sure yet.

Thanks for the bridge design, I'll give it a try! I actually remember making that antenna gray at one point, but it looked terrible. It's funny, many people never even notice that color issue until it's pointed out It's one of those odd psychological effects.

I too had a fiber optic ISD. But I was too young / dumb at the time to build it. Would it be possible to add light sources to the blue tiles as well? Maybe we can see the city lit-up after all :)

Blakbird is the best! I'm going to make the actual build (God willing) light up as well. It would be awesome to see the 3000+ blue tiles on the city aglow.

EB Forums' Blakbird did some beautiful test renders with the LDraw file I just had to show.

LDD doesn't have a piece limit, but a polygon limit. Those base plates + mini-figs alone have more polygons than half my ship.

The bridge needs to be 1 stud wide at this scale, and basically 1 stud high. If you have a better design, post it! I'll use it in the actual build (God willing).